jung's 12 archetypes

archetypes are universal symbols, figures, and life patterns jung believed to be inherent to humans and shared across the collective unconscious, and indicate traits within ourselves and what we seek out in others.

which ones do you most identify with, and which do you attract/are attracted to?

i see myself in the explorer, lover, sage, and magician categories. i usually attract the same, along with some rebels/outlaws.

The Ego Types

1. The Innocent

Motto: Free to be you and me

Core desire: to get to paradise

Goal: to be happy

Greatest fear: to be punished for doing something bad or wrong

Strategy: to do things right

Weakness: boring for all their naive innocence

Talent: faith and optimism

The Innocent is also known as: Utopian, traditionalist, naive, mystic, saint, romantic, dreamer.

2. The Everyman

Motto: All men and women are created equal

Core Desire: connecting with others

Goal: to belong

Greatest fear: to be left out or to stand out from the crowd

Strategy: develop ordinary solid virtues, be down to earth, the common touch

Weakness: losing one’s own self in an effort to blend in or for the sake of superficial relationships

Talent: realism, empathy, lack of pretense

The Everyman is also known as: The good old boy, regular guy/girl, the person next door, the realist, the working stiff, the solid citizen, the good neighbor, the silent majority.

3. The Hero

Motto: Where there’s a will, there’s a way

Core desire: to prove one’s worth through courageous acts

Goal: expert mastery in a way that improves the world

Greatest fear: weakness, vulnerability, being a “chicken”

Strategy: to be as strong and competent as possible

Weakness: arrogance, always needing another battle to fight

Talent: competence and courage

The Hero is also known as: The warrior, crusader, rescuer, superhero, the soldier, dragon slayer, the winner and the team player.

4. The Caregiver

Motto: Love your neighbour as yourself

Core desire: to protect and care for others

Goal: to help others

Greatest fear: selfishness and ingratitude

Strategy: doing things for others

Weakness: martyrdom and being exploited

Talent: compassion, generosity

The Caregiver is also known as: The saint, altruist, parent, helper, supporter.

The Soul Types

5. The Explorer

Motto: Don’t fence me in

Core desire: the freedom to find out who you are through exploring the world

Goal: to experience a better, more authentic, more fulfilling life

Biggest fear: getting trapped, conformity, and inner emptiness

Strategy: journey, seeking out and experiencing new things, escape from boredom

Weakness: aimless wandering, becoming a misfit

Talent: autonomy, ambition, being true to one’s soul

The explorer is also known as: The seeker, iconoclast, wanderer, individualist, pilgrim.

6. The Rebel

Motto: Rules are made to be broken

Core desire: revenge or revolution

Goal: to overturn what isn’t working

Greatest fear: to be powerless or ineffectual

Strategy: disrupt, destroy, or shock

Weakness: crossing over to the dark side, crime

Talent: outrageousness, radical freedom

The Outlaw is also known as: The rebel, revolutionary, wild man, the misfit, or iconoclast.

7. The Lover

Motto: You’re the only one

Core desire: intimacy and experience

Goal: being in a relationship with the people, work and surroundings they love

Greatest fear: being alone, a wallflower, unwanted, unloved

Strategy: to become more and more physically and emotionally attractive

Weakness: outward-directed desire to please others at risk of losing own identity

Talent: passion, gratitude, appreciation, and commitment

The Lover is also known as: The partner, friend, intimate, enthusiast, sensualist, spouse, team-builder.

8. The Creator/Artist

Motto: If you can imagine it, it can be done

Core desire: to create things of enduring value

Goal: to realize a vision

Greatest fear: mediocre vision or execution

Strategy: develop artistic control and skill

Task: to create culture, express own vision

Weakness: perfectionism, bad solutions

Talent: creativity and imagination

The Creator is also known as: The artist, inventor, innovator, musician, writer or dreamer.

The Self Types

9. The Jester

Motto: You only live once

Core desire: to live in the moment with full enjoyment

Goal: to have a great time and lighten up the world

Greatest fear: being bored or boring others

Strategy: play, make jokes, be funny

Weakness: frivolity, wasting time

Talent: joy

The Jester is also known as: The fool, trickster, joker, practical joker or comedian.

10. The Sage

Motto: The truth will set you free

Core desire: to find the truth.

Goal: to use intelligence and analysis to understand the world.

Biggest fear: being duped, misled—or ignorance.

Strategy: seeking out information and knowledge; self-reflection and understanding thought processes.

Weakness: can study details forever and never act.

Talent: wisdom, intelligence.

The Sage is also known as: The expert, scholar, detective, advisor, thinker, philosopher, academic, researcher, thinker, planner, professional, mentor, teacher, contemplative.

11. The Magician

Motto: I make things happen.

Core desire: understanding the fundamental laws of the universe

Goal: to make dreams come true

Greatest fear: unintended negative consequences

Strategy: develop a vision and live by it

Weakness: becoming manipulative

Talent: finding win-win solutions

The Magician is also known as:The visionary, catalyst, inventor, charismatic leader, shaman, healer, medicine man.

12. The Ruler

Motto: Power isn’t everything, it’s the only thing.

Core desire: control

Goal: create a prosperous, successful family or community

Strategy: exercise power

Greatest fear: chaos, being overthrown

Weakness: being authoritarian, unable to delegate

Talent: responsibility, leadership

The Ruler is also known as: The boss, leader, aristocrat, king, queen, politician, role model, manager or administrator.

https://conorneill.com/2018/04/21/understanding-personality-the-12-jungian-archetypes/

Sage.

Posted by Antiphates

The innocent mixed with some of the others would be my guess.

Edit:

Correction: the orphan mixed with some of the others.

so you're the the everyman/orphan? which do you attract?

Posted by HearttofTopazz

link please? 🙂

i've been all about the hermit card this year too.

Posted by BlueStar

I took this same test and got Innocent as my top as I suspected

Followed by “wise old man”...idk which one that is in the ones exo posted

Third was jester which I can also see because I have heard “I play too much” and “think everything is funny”

Posted by brianafay

Posted by BlueStar

I took this same test and got Innocent as my top as I suspected

Followed by “wise old man”...idk which one that is in the ones exo posted

Third was jester which I can also see because I have heard “I play too much” and “think everything is funny”

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i think the "wise old man" would be similar to the sage.

Posted by Aqua-Marine

I think Im either the innocent or the caregiver. I feel like a mix of both if that’s possible lol

yep, we encompass all of them to varying degrees. best not to let one dominate the entire personality.

Posted by exoskeleton_

Posted by brianafay

Posted by BlueStar

I took this same test and got Innocent as my top as I suspected

Followed by “wise old man”...idk which one that is in the ones exo posted

Third was jester which I can also see because I have heard “I play too much” and “think everything is funny”

i think the "wise old man" would be similar to the sage.

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Oh I can see that yeah

People think I’m a lot more serious and introspective than I am

I’m not in deep thought ...I’m honestly probably just thinking about lunch 😂

I got the fool.

Which makes sense because according to ChatGPT, the fictional character that best embodies me is Clopin Trouillefou.

Just reading their qualities I probably have the artist and innocent at top and the ruler at the bottom 😛

Self: Joker, innocent child, magician, hero.

Persona: Innocent child, joker, wise old man, hero.

I agree.